Employee 1.0 Is Back With An Excellent Guest Column

Alberto and Galen were notably absent but the stars were out in full force at the Portland Track Festival with Shannon Rowbury, Steve Magness, the Gouchers, Alan Webb, Kevin Hanson, Desi Davila, Mark Wetmore, Shalane Flanagan, Evan Jager, Chris Solinsky, and many more in attendance. Employee 1.0 is back to recount the surreal scene in light of the Nike Oregon Project Doping investigation.

Words Of Wisdom From Sally Pearson Pearson warns athletes not to specialize on one event too early. She was a gymnast when she was younger and always wishes she had tried the pole vault.

Previous NOP Doping News

Matt Lawton Round I Needles, FedExing Unmarked Vials, And Vials That Had To Be Refrigerated Massage therapist John Stiner says he found bags of needles in a Nike Oregon Project apartment and was told by Alberto Salazar to refrigerate and keep cold vials in the fridge labelled “Asthma 1” and “Asthma 2” and FedEx them to him. Former NOP coach Steve Magness reportedly has emails showing he was supposed to FedEx to Galen Rupp an unmarked vial that he claimed was his allergy serum. A special improperly labelled allergy concoction is a possible explanation but there are more questions to answer.*2nd Article From Matt Lawton On John Stiner*Discuss Here

M5,000 LRCIt’s Settled: Edward Cheserek Is The King No one was holding anything back in this one and in the end Oregon’s Edward Cheserek was simply too good for teammate Eric Jenkins over the final 100 as he won his 8th NCAA title in 13:48.67. Jenkins was second and Will Geoghegan was fourth to give Oregon 23 points and seal a second straight team title.

Men’s Team Battle:Oregon Moves Up, Florida Stays Strong Oregon projected 1st with 71 points with Florida 2nd with 67 points, so on paper it’s still a very close meet. Texas A&M is projected a distant 3rd.

Matt Lawton Round II Mo Farah Had Two Whereabouts Violations Before 2012 Olympics One was in 2010 before he started working with Alberto Salazar and one in 2011 after he started working with Salazar. Three in an 18-month period (12 months starting in 2015) would have gotten him banned. Salazar emailed Farah, “If you miss another test, they will hang you.”

More From The Weekend

Brazillian Team Dominates At South American Championships Urugay’s Deborah Rodríguez won four events including a NR in the 800 (2:01.46) and 400H (56.33). Ecuador’s Byron Piedra won the 10,000 in 28:30, Colombia Gerard Giraldo took the steeple in 8:29, Ecuador’s María Balvina Pastuña won the 5000 (15:49) and Muriel Coneo the 1,500 (4:10).

Early Week Track Action

Results: 2015 Vancouver Sun Harry Jerome International Track ClassicSarah Brown won the 1,500 in 4:07.67, while Sheila Reid was 6th (4:11.38). Anthony Romaniw beat Harun Abda in the 800 with 1:47.95, and back in 7th and 1:49.72 was Andrew Wheating. Ross Proudfoot won the 1,500 (3:39.62) over Nate Brannen and Wallace Spearmon won the 200 in 20.77.

Mid-D Stuff

IAAF Personal Bests Q&A With Nijel Amos Amos says the best piece of advice he ever got was from Olympic 1,500 champ Taoufik Makhloufi, who told him “no one will give you anything for free in this world … So each day wake up and know you have to go out and work hard for what you want.”

Mo Farah Spoke At Saturday’s Press Conference And We Learned A Lot *Discuss

Angry Mo Farah Wants Answers Over Alberto Salazar’s Doping Allegations And Reveals A Lot He said he has never been on thyroid medication, will sit down with Alberto face-to-face, speak with Steve Magness and others in the documentary, and also make his blood values public to show he has nothing to hide. We’d also like him and the entire NOP to release the list of supplements they admit to taking when they are drug tested. The sports “grey area” may need to change.